About the architecture of the FBReader source code

[bercago]

Hi Everyone,
I just downloaded the source code of FBReader 0.11.0,
I would like to look into it and understand how it is implemented.

But I didn't find any help doc which can help me to get into it
quickly.

Is there such ducumentation existed?
Or can anyone give me an introduction about the code structure/
architecture?
especially where is the doc decode engine and how it coworks with the
presentation layer.

I uncompressed the source code and there are following folders:
Distributions
fbreader
makefiles
zlibrary

Thanks for help
bercago

[geometer]

Sorry,

There is no description of the FBReader architecture outside the
developers heads. In the other hand, there are several fbreader-based
project (like OpenInkpot); that means it's possible to understand the
architecture if you are interested in. ;)

As for the decoding engine, take a look into the fbreader/formats/
<your format> directory.

I'm not sure what you mean as 'presentation layer'; if you mean a text
formatting engine, the directory zlibrary/text will be interesting for
you.

Best,

-- Nikolay

[bercago]

Hi Nikolay,
Thanks for your information.

The presentation layer I mensioned is something like "MMI",
the GUI, user input interaction and so on.

I guess we need to open a file,
use correct decoder engine to decode the file,
and the decoder engine will return a kind of data to MMI to display.

I want to know what kind of data the decoder will return?
a pure ASCII text? or the decoded result has to be layout by text
formatting engine?

Thanks for your help
bercago

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[techfanatic]

a pixmap ?

[geometer]

Decoder "returns" an internal text model presentation, an instance of
type ZLPlainTextModel (zlibrary/text/src/model).

-- Nikolay